With Harmonisation Limited projecting a net loss of $122 million for financial year 2025-2026, the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service says the company will continue to collaborate with stakeholders on the overall development plan for the...
A little more than $1.5 billion has been allocated in the 2025-26 Estimates of Expenditure for children’s homes that receive youngsters placed by the Child Protection and Family Services Agency (CPFSA). Privately operated children’s homes currently...
While Jamaica remains stagnant at 44 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index (CPI) for 2024, making it the third most corrupt country in the English-speaking Caribbean, at least four territories in the region have registered...
Despite a raft of recommendations from civil society groups, the Financial Investigation Division (FID), and the Integrity Commission (IC) for a tweaking or removal of the so-called ‘gag clause’ in the IC legislation, some lawmakers are adamant...
Jamaica’s policymakers have been urged to closely monitor the country’s shifting demographic trends and take proactive measures to implement comprehensive policies addressing the growing needs of the elderly population, specifically those aged 65...
The failure of several municipal corporations to submit financial statements with audit evidence, and other records to support transactions and account balances in the handling of billions of taxpayers’ money, has resulted in Auditor General Pamela...
Sensitive data in at least six police station diaries containing information of cases involving hundreds and possibly thousands of children were left exposed in an abandoned building on Ruthven Road in St Andrew that previously housed the...
The absence of sufficient and appropriate audit evidence to verify $295.5 million in journal adjustments at the Export Division of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Mining has been flagged as a concern by the auditor general. Auditor...
More than 50 workers at bauxite-alumina producer Jamalco were sent home last week as part of a redundancy exercise. The Gleaner has been informed that 56 employees, including hourly and monthly paid workers as well as personnel at the managerial...
Decrying the high lending rates commercial banks offer to players in the small business sector, despite consecutive reductions in policy interest rates last year by the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), president of the Small Businesses Association of Jamaica...
Principal Director of the National Integrity Action (NIA) Danielle Archer is arguing that without increased public pressure and awareness about the importance of having anti-bribery laws and unexplained wealth orders (UWOs) in Jamaica, these...
Jamaica’s single anti-corruption body has found that a Beverly Hills town house constructed by Estatebridge, a company linked to Prime Minister Andrew Holness and his business partner Norman Brown, has breached the building permit issued by the...
Carvel McBean leaned on his crutches in front of the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) yesterday, even as he contemplated his next move after prematurely being sent home by hospital officials in the wake of a sickout by junior doctors. McBean...
The Auditor General’s Department in 2020 flagged the lack of supporting documents for money spent under the Office of the Prime Minister’s (OPM) Youth Employment in Digital and Animation Industries (YEDAI) Project. On November 29, 2024, the Major...
Member of Parliament for St Andrew Western Anthony Hylton has reported that the base of the Sandy Gully and its reinforced concrete walls, on both sides of the gully, have been breached in the wake of the recent heavy rainfall. Hylton told members...
Nearly $4 million in relief supplies meant for Jamaicans affected by local disasters have been lost due to inadequate storage facilities at sites managed by the Office of Disaster Preparedness and Emergency Management (ODPEM). A performance audit...
Verbal attacks against the Integrity Commission (IC) from some members of the political directorate as well as the starting remuneration for new recruits who have critical skills to offer to the anti-corruption body are factors that are being...
Jamaica has sponsored Blue Minerals Jamaica Limited to carry out deep-sea mining exploration, but the parliamentary Opposition is raising questions about an apparent change in ownership of the company, which has not been reflected in the records of...
Former Speaker of the House of Representatives Marisa Dalrymple-Philibert, who resigned as member of parliament for Trelawny Southern last September after facing eight criminal charges for making a false statement in her statutory declarations to...
President of the Jamaica Medical Doctors’ Association (JMDA), Dr Renee Badroe, is sounding a note of caution that medical practitioners will not be scapegoats for problems that have nothing to do with their remit. The JMDA head told The Gleaner...
Fresh out of high school in the early 1990s, Allan Taylor applied for a job in Parliament. His father worked as a sergeant of police at Gordon House and heard of a vacant position for a parliamentary orderly and encouraged his son to submit an...
A statement by President of the Senate, Tom Tavares-Finson, calling on chairman of the Integrity Commission (IC), retired Justice Seymour Panton, to apologise for “disrespectful and contemptuous” remarks he made while addressing a parliamentary...
With the commissioners of the Integrity Commission (IC) scheduled to appear before the oversight committee of Parliament today, a debate over whether the committee should accept or reject recommendations arising from investigations done by the anti...
Minister of Industry, Investment and Commerce, Senator Aubyn Hill, says the shortage of cement on the market has ended. According to the minister, the Caribbean Cement Company Limited (CCCL), a major producer of the product, has assured him that...
Amid the ongoing debate over the referral of Prime Minister Andrew Holness’ financial affairs for further probe, legal experts are offering differing views on Justice Minister Delroy Chuck’s charge that the Integrity Commission (IC) should be...
